Places to Look to Publish Your Poems

After a press conference (my last at that time), when I could no longer go out the house often, I explored the web community. After my husband's death and while taking care of a sick mom, I found good places to write and good places to blog. Of course, no one has to die or to be sick first, but then, that was how it came with me.

I retrieved my old poems, my poems from a workshop and my love poems. I saw my high school poems, Where Did We All Come From and Goodbye Dear Grandmother.

I also found some six poems, submitted to Dr. Marjorie Evasco (of our Poetry Class), where the kind teacher offered me to join a writer's workshop for free (which I declined because of a house chore). Thank you dear teacher for the challenge, and I am sorry for not having the guts and seriousness of a poet, that time.

My journey to the places of where to publicize my poems required and entailed hard work. I felt those moments grand and exciting; at other times, haunting. I thought someone, readers, or at least you, would read my poems and be with me. I wrote the words. I restrained some phrases. I came to you.

I had written Death Row on Poemhunter.com. I had thought about Haiti, sores, healing, blood dripping and Uncle Scrooge wilting in pain; hence my lines imposed "Prepare the heaven, open!" I thought of pleading to God in the screams and agonies of battlefields, pain and confusion.

The poem Three Bottles came while I was alone with my mother (may God rest her soul) in the hospital, years ago. I was literally counting the drops of blood in the bottle till it filled the brim.

"It makes my brain shiver and my hands tight with each other." So I thought, there was no other way, but to pray!

Truly, vivid pictures of memories are gifts from God. They have to be shared, as they are an enormous task of poets and writers to fulfill.

Conversations Across Borders, Read Write Think, Yahoo Network, Google+, You Tube, Worldwide Poetry, Prose and Poetry Global, Shadow Poetry. Com, Filipino Poet's Circle, Blogspot websites, and WordPress blogs are places to look to publicize your poems. And there are still many others offered by the I Share Community!

So write your poems, create your own blogs or sign up. You can join challenges and prompts online. Literary magazines are also accepting contributions from both amateur and professional writers.